Show 1 Physicians Fight to Save Lives Of Fliers Rescued From Peak TAGS TAOS N N. M. M Nov 20 UP Doctors UP-Doctors Doctors at Holy Cross hospital sought Friday to save the lives of two of nine fliers who were rescued from atop foot Baldy mountain where they had been marooned more than 50 hours after the crash of a four- four motored army bomber Staff Sergeants John J J. Powers Cresskill N. N J J. unconscious with witha a skull fracture since the crash Tuesday morning and Edwin E. E Paul Teaneck N. N J J. J critically injured Injured in In- In remained at Taos while their less severely hurt companions companions compan compan- ions were transferred to the Albuquerque Albuquerque Albuquerque Albu Albu- querque air base hospital Second Lieutenant Norman N. N Godnick of New York was killed when the big plane from SalIna Kan Ian struck the top of the mountain mountain mountain moun moun- tain at full speed and caromed nearly feet He lie had been seated in the forward observation post in the plane according to Captain Joseph of the Colorado highway patrol and a member of the rescue party The nine men and their dead companion Were carried down the mountainside Thursday by a rescue rescue rescue res res- cue party which set out on horseback horseback horse horse- back Wednesday morning but was forced to make a night camp below the timber line where the crash survivors waited Powers and Paul were brought down the rocky mountainside on stretchers while the others badly bruised and but otherwise not seriously hurt managed to ride The survivors said they did not know the cause of the accident I Their instruments and charts they said showed them to be flying at ata ata ata a safe altitude when the plane hit the peak which towers above surrounding surrounding surrounding sur sur- rounding hills Other members of ot the crew were Second Lieutenant H. H W. W Riney Monmouth Ore pilot Second Second Second Sec Sec- ond Lieutenant J J. A. A Bishop Jr Nashville Tenn copilot Second Lieutenant Thomas L. L bourgh St. St Paul Minn Staff Sergeant Sergeant Ser Ser- geant gean Peter J J. Mitchel Sigourney Iowa Staff Sergeant Merlin G. G Elgin Minn Staff Sergeant Sergeant Sergeant Ser Ser- geant J J. B B. B Pursley Chicago and Private Rudolph W. W Matula Benard Benard Renard Be- Be nard Texas |